Happy Monday! Welcome to the Week 3 post on our 2019 Calving Season. Please be sure to check out Week 1 and Week 2 of our 2019 Calving Season. Week of Monday, May 13th – Sunday, May 19th Monday, May 13th - Thursday, May 16th - Very quiet. No activity on the farm in terms of calves being born. Lots of calves playing in the field! Friday, May 17th - While … [Read more...] about Observations from THE PASTURE: Week 3 – 2019 Calving Season
Observations from THE PASTURE: Week 2 – 2019 Calving Season
Happy Mother's Day! We had a very busy Mother's Day weekend on the farm. We had five calves born over the weekend and seven calves born in total over our second week of calving. Be sure to check out our: Observations from THE PASTURE: Week 1 – 2019 Calving Season and on to...... Observations from THE PASTURE: Week 2 of the 2019 Calving Season. Week of … [Read more...] about Observations from THE PASTURE: Week 2 – 2019 Calving Season
Observations from THE PASTURE: Week 1 – 2019 Calving Season
The 2019 Calving Season is officially underway here on the farm. As I discussed in a previous post, I will be doing a series called "Observations from THE PASTURE", throughout the calving season. Simply put, I will be documenting (with text and pictures) the adventures of the past week on the farm in terms of calving and related activities. Without further ado, I … [Read more...] about Observations from THE PASTURE: Week 1 – 2019 Calving Season
New Blog Series: Observations from THE PASTURE
These last few weeks have found me getting more and more exited for our 6th calving season, and for ALL of this snow to disappear. With calving on the mind, I have been tossing around an idea for a future blog series. Seeing the attention our post, That Cow is Gonna Calve Soon: Signs of the Onset of Labor, has garnered since it's inception in 2014, I had a light-bulb … [Read more...] about New Blog Series: Observations from THE PASTURE
Thinking Ahead to the Beef Calving Season
Apparently, it is springtime now. It sure doesn't feel that way on the farm. For us, spring doesn't really emerge until April or May. But, spring will arrive to our neck of the woods soon enough and with it, preparation for our 2019 calving season. We pushed back our breeding season last summer by one week and therefore, we anticipate calves to start hitting the … [Read more...] about Thinking Ahead to the Beef Calving Season